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back in 2008 a realtor friend of mine called me and asked me to go to one of her rental properties asap, I asked what was the deal, she said Ill tell you here, I went down there and the news vans and police were there, I walked to the door and the police didn't allowed me in, they said it was a crime scene, I found the owner and she told me his tenant snapped and killed his wife, then chased his daughter with the gun but a neighbor saved her, swat came and tried to negotiate his surrender, nothing, when they broke in to catch him he blew his top... I waited until the police left and they took the bodies, the living room had a coach soaked in blood, blood and brain matter splattered in the wall behind the couch, it was a mess... they hired a company which cleans that kind of shiet, after that I brought my carpet guy, he asked me what happened, why there was a big square of carpet missing I said ill tell u later, everything was fine, when I brought the painters I left them working there alone while I went to check other jobs, then I came back around 3:00 and they were outside, I asked if they finished, they said no, one of the guys said he felt like a very cold breeze by his neck, then a door slammed shut and they exited the house, I knew these guys were highly superstitious so they didn't know nothing about, I asked them to get in and finish that I was gonna stay with them, they did, after that I told them ****ers, hahaha!! they were like making the sign of the cross and stuff, I went alone a night after to replace some ceiling fans and I must say I felt uneasy, it was a cool experience tho...
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Like the poster before me said, I've always wanted to see something. But I think I'll **** myself if I ever did.
Once when I was a kid, I remember me and my 4 cousins were walking down the street in Mexico, and we saw a very big shadow. Keep in mind it was about 3 am in the morning. We all just started running and screaming La Llorona! Oh and my cousin swears up and down that she saw a man with red eyes in the middle of the night... She's not known to be a liar. So pretty weird. More stories guys! |
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The question was whether the government was aware of the poor construction, maintenance and lack of basic facilities in the flats allotted under DDA's 2010 housing scheme.
There were also questions regarding any inquiry ordered to fix responsibility for the shortcomings and the steps being taken by the government to sort them out.
Hindustan Times has been consistently writing about the problems faced by allottees of these flats who have taken huge loans to buy these flats and now find them unliveable.
From non-availability of power and water to bad internal roads, poor construction, lack of elevators in high-rises and fire safety mechanisms, allottees of flats in areas such as Vasant Kunj D-6, Mukherjee Nagar, Dwarka 18-B and Motia Khan complain about all kinds of problems.
Nath claimed the DDA has reported no instance of poor construction and possession of flats have been handed over to the allottees with all services, except flats in Dwarka's sector 18-B. Demand letters for such 476 flats haven't been issued yet, he said.
"The provision of water supply and sewerage is complete in all respects. However, some teething problems and complaints regarding maintenance are being attended to on regular basis," he said in his reply.
Nath said disciplinary action has been initiated against three DDA executive engineers and one assistant engineer for delay in completion of amenities.
He said the DDA insisted upon the agencies concerned to complete the works of electrification, internal street lighting and roads within the next 2-3 months.

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Just a little speculation about Brian Michal Bendis and Chris Bachalo's Uncanny X-Men #31...
Before the spoilers, a general observation: I've been enjoying Bendis' X-Men books tremendously since he launched them following the Avengers vs. X-Men event. His talent at writing character moments and witty banter serves this property well, especially with the each of the two books focusing on a younger subset of the group (the Original Five in New X-Men and the new students in Uncanny X-Men). While I think he overstayed his welcome a bit on Avengers, he seems to leaving X-Men on a high note, for that I salute him (along with his uncanny artistic collaborators).
In this issue, time-traveling mutant Eva Bell brings a young Professor Xavier back from the past to see the consequences of his actions: trying to suppress a nearly omnipotent mutant, Matthew Malloy, who, after Xavier died, was relinquished, losing control of his powers and killing numerous humans and mutants, including Cyclops, Emma Frost, and even ones people would miss. (I kid, I kid.)
Seeing no way to restrain the runaway mutant, Eva takes Xavier ever farther into the past to stop Matthew's parents from meeting, effectively preventing the entire incident from happening. Eva returns the young Xavier to his original time, where he promises to wipe his memory of everything he knows about his future. Eva returns to our time as the only person alive who remembers Matthew's rampage—until she tells Cyclops, who just doesn't feel bad enough about his life right now.
Does this sound a little familiar? Think, McFly, think!
My son loves Back to the Future like I love bacon, and as a result, I've seen it more times than I can count. We all know how the film ends: Marty tries to leave a note for Doc Brown in 1955, letting him know that he will be shot in 1985, so he can take action to prevent it. Doc rips up the letter, pleading to Marty that it's dangerous to know your future, so when Marty returns to 1985 and sees Doc gunned down by Libyan terrorists, he's afraid his mentor is dead. Of course, after the terrorists leave, Doc sits up, reveals his bullet-proof vest, and takes out the letter, taped together from the tiny fragments. It's a great YOLO moment for the entire family.
Now back to Bendis and the X-Men... Xavier said he would wipe his mind of the knowledge of his death at the hands of his protege, Cyclops. But what if he didn't, and he actually took some steps before his death to save his life, such as transferring his consciousness elsewhere at the last minute?
I think this would be a brilliant way for Bendis to bring Xavier back before he leaves the X-Men titles and make good use of all the headache-inducing time-travel shenanigans. Of course, it might retcon the Axis storyline out of existence... which would just be icing on the cake.
So, what do you think?
Hard to believe this is my first post here in 2015... sad but true...
Nonetheless, just a quick post to point your swiping or clicking finger toward several items of potential interest:
Marvel's current crossover event, AXIS, involves various characters having their ethical orientation "inverted": heroes become villians and vice versa. A deceptively simple premise that has been used throughout the history of superhero comics—but rarely on this scale—it has potential for interesting stories (as well as culminating in "things will never be the same" changes to the status quo).
Ironically, however, it is precisely the aspect of Marvel's characters that makes them unique—their moral complexity and nuance—that confounds efforts to "flip" them from good to evil or from evil to good, resulting in strange adn confusing choices in storytelling and characterization.
There are very few characters in the Marvel Universe who are unambiguously good or evil: Captain America (that is, Steve Rogers) and the Red Skull, who are not among the inverted, are the two obvious exceptions. (There could be others too: for instance, I'd throw in Spider-Man, pure of heart but imperfect in execution, who interestingly was also not inverted.) The vast majority of the Marvel heroes and villains, however, are more complex, the heroes struggling against their more base natures and the villains striving to some degree to find redemption or achieve noble ends. But this complexity, a hallmark of Marvel Comics since the firm of Lee, Kirby, Ditko, and Associates dreamed them up in the 1960s, makes it diffiult to simply "flip" their moral characters. As a result, in AXIS we see a wildly inconsistent approach to inversions, especially regarding several heroes and one villain in particular.
Throughout this series and its tie-ins, I've been fascinated and frustrated by two characters in particular, Iron Man and Doctor Doom, whom I've long found to be very similar in their moral characters. Essentially utilitarian in their ethics, both pursue their personal visions of "the good" while believing that the ends justify the means. This leads Iron Man, for example, to take the controversial actions he took during Civil War in order to protect the superhero community, and leads Doom to try to take over the world, time and time again, because—as shown well in the miniseries Doomwar—he believes in his heart that only his rule can save humanity. Of course, both also have massive egos which serve to enable their extreme actions in pursuit of their singular visions, granting each the perception of entitlement, even the duty, to use their superior intelligence to save the world, damn the costs (as well as indulge personal vendettas and grudges along the way), and it is this arrogance which often foils their greatest ambitions (especially in Doom's case).
But after they are inverted during AXIS, these two similar characters are spun in completely opposite directions. Iron Man is portrayed as a mustache-twirling Snidely, teasing the citizens of San Francisco with an Extremis app that can make them "perfect" and then charging them $100 per day to maintain it. (This could be seen merely as leveraging an extremely attractive—and presumably legal—product for maximum revenue, but that sort of behavior often represents evil in popular fiction, and in any case is quite a departure from Tony's recent corporate altruism.) In other words, whatever restraints Tony Stark once felt on his pursuit of the good, for himself or for the world, have been removed. But this is not Tony "inverted"—this is Tony squared, Tony unleashed, his buffers removed, all second-guessing forgotten, resulting in even more of a caricature of himself than (according to some) in Civil War.
On the other hand, Doom has been all but neutered, now positively apoplectic about all the pain he caused his beloved citizens of Latveria, on whom he bestows democracy (by fiat, natch) before embarking on a program of making amends like a charter member of Villains Anonymous. The once proud and noble Doom simpers to Valeria Richards (daughter of Sue and Reed, currently living with Dad's greatest enemy in a delightful act of childhood defiance) about his need to right his past wrongs and also protect himself Latveria from an inverted Scarlet Witch who wants revenge for the events of Avengers Disassembled, House of M, and her wimple. (He had nothing to do with last one, but she could be understandably pissed about it all the same.) He even admits to Valeria—brace yourself, true believers—that Reed Richards has "always been right."
While Iron Man's "inversion" magnified his worse impulses, Doom's robbed him of his best. He either no longer seems to want to save humanity—a change that, in itself, hardly seems heroic—or he no longer feels he can do it and that the way he was doing it was incorrect—which is not an ethical change but an empirical one about methods. The thing that was evil about Doom was the steps he was willing to take to serve his goal of saving the world, but his nobility came from his sense of purpose and the moral lines he was not willing to cross (matters of honor such as truthfulness and keeping promises). Where he was once a fascinating man of extremes, now he's been reduced in both his ambition and his arrogance.
How interesting it would have been if, instead, Doom had been inverted into a traditional one-dimensional villain instead, using his brilliance to rob banks. Then, at least, the reader would have been led to ponder the true complexity of Doom's character and wonder if he was really a villain to begin with, and in what ways he was different from a hero like Iron Man. (At least they didn't make him an angry blogger.)
It seems that what the inversions did was not to flip the overall ethical orientation of the affected heroes—except in the most simplistic way possible, turning nuanced moral characters into one-dimensional caricatures—but merely flip the degree to which they perceived limits on their activity: for example, Iron Man sees fewer limits and Doom sees more. Apart from Tony and Vic, the Scarlet Witch indulges her desire for revenge against Doom; the all-new Captain America (Sam Wilson) still fights crime, but more like the Punisher than he did as the Falcon; and the X-Men become very pro-active against humanity (making Cyclops look like Gandhi). None of them has become a villain per se, but simply less traditionally heroic by virtue of crossing lines that once they refused to cross.
The main idea of AXIS is to flip heroes and villains along the "axis" of good and evil. But given the complexity granted to most of the Marvel characters by their creators, and maintained over the years out of dedication to that vision, there is no simple axis to be found. Most Marvel characters express their heroism or villainy in nuanced and multifaceted ways, so there are many axes along with they can be inverted. For example, they can be flipped in one aspect of them (such as what remained of Tony's restraints on his pursuit of goals), flipped along more than one of them (such as Doom's loss of ambition and arrogance), or reduced to a simple black-and-white caricature (such as the Scarlet Witch of Vengeance).
Of course, the "fuzzy" method of inversion in AXIS may have been part of the creators' plan—it did result from a magical spell, after all, and magic is known for its unpredictability. But I think some great story possibilities were missed by not considering what truly makes the various Marvel characters heroes or villains—or both.
If I knew the official announcement of Sam Wilson (the Falcon) picking up the mantle from an aged Steve Rogers was coming so soon, I would have waited to write my post on the new Thor, since many of the points I have to make are the same. But here I'll focus on the aspects unique to Cap.
1. Ever since this was hinted several weeks back, I've thought about it in terms of two issues: who becomes the new Cap, and why are they replacing Steve Rogers at all. The first is a no-brainer, and personally I'm thrilled to see Sam as the next person to wield the shield. I think this a win all around: it flows naturally from the story Rick Remender has been telling, and Sam is the natural successor to Steve (given that Bucky already had a shot), having been his crime-fighting partner and close confidante for years. Furthermore, it helps to diversify the Marvel line in the same way that the female Thor does, which I only hope will be justified and motivated in-story as well as Sam's ascension is. (The same issues with legacy that I expressed in my Thor post hold, even though there have been almost as many different Caps as Thor has had helmets.)
2. The bigger issue for me is: why is Steve Rogers being replaced again so soon after he came back from "the dead" several years ago? (It seems like yesterday, but possibly that's because I have no life.) There are a number of possible reasons.
First, it may have been motivated for the express purpose of putting Sam in the red-white-and-blues. Nothing wrong with that, though it does seem to make Steve Rogers disposable and imply that Sam Wilson can't be made a more prominent fixture in the Marvel Universe as the Falcon—which, after all, is an original, nonderivative superhero identity without "Black" in the name, and something I think should be celebrated.
Second, it may be part of a larger character arc for Steve Rogers—in much the same way that Rhodey first served as Iron Man during Tony Stark's fall and rise from the depths of alcoholism, only to have Tony reclaim the armor when he was all better—but this would diminish Sam's stature as a "true" successor as Captain America and make him little more than a placeholder. He would get his moment in the sun, true, but he deserves better.
Third, it may simply be a "hail mary" on the part of the creators. I've found Remender's run to be less than inspiring after an impressive start, and this may have been the best Cap story they could come up with. If I remember correctly, Cap has been "depowered" twice since he was reborn, and that well has run dry—which leads me to think this was motivated by one or both of the reasons above (or simply a desire to mix things up, as I'll discuss below).
3. Let's abstract away from the new Cap and talk about Marvel in general. In my post on the new Thor I expressed my suspicions that all of these abrupt changes in major characters were leading to a Marvel reboot down the road. Maybe it's not, and many if not all of these changes will be reversed in a year or so. Regardless of how long these changes stay in place, however, and no matter how much I support each of these changes individually and look forward to the stories that can be told with them, taken together they reek of the same desperation that led DC to reboot their universe three years ago: short term shock to goose sales. As Brevoort says in the interview announcing the New Cap, "Change is one of the watchwords of the Marvel Universe, so there are even more startling surprises to come!" This sounds to me like "change for the sake of change," which I regard as a shortsighted alternative to solid, innovative storytelling rooted in the rich history of beloved characters.
But I'm not running Marvel Comics, and I'm no expert on what sells comics to the majority of current fans (or the elusive "new fans" they hope to elicit). Maybe current readers want rapid change that keeps them on the toes. Maybe they don't have the same appreciation of decades of continuity and character development that we old fogeys have. DC certainly seems to have banked on that, and even though their editorial and PR problems of late are well documented, few of them seem to deal directly with lost continuity. As long as Marvel avoids a total reboot, they will retain that history that many fans love, and will also be adopting a concept of legacy similar to what DC had before the New 52 (as I discussed in the last post). This may be inconsistent with the appreciation many longtime fans have for the characters, but may appeal more to new ones. (I don't know.)
Again, I sincerely hope I'm wrong. After all, look at the Superior Spider-Man, which exceeded almost everyone's expectations in terms of storytelling, after which (to me, at least) Peter Parker as Spider-Man once again seems almost blasé. Fantastic stories were told of Bucky Barnes when he served as Captain America, and I hope the stories of Sam Wilson as Captain America (and the new Thor) will be just as good. At the end of the day, there are two things that matter to me: story and character. If good stories are told that respect the characters and develop them organically, I'll be the happiest fan knocking down the door of my local comics shop every Wednesday morning. But with Marvel right now (or "Right NOW!"), it just seems like too much all at once, and that worries me.
Recently it was announced—on "The View," of all places—that the next person found worthy to wield the power of Thor in the Marvel Universe would be a woman, after the current Thor is judged unworthy. (See here for the best write-up I've found, including an interview with writer Jason Aaron and EIC Axel Alonso.) Predictably, the comics internet went crazy, with some fans excited and supportive of the move and others very upset, many of them angry that "their Thor" could possibly be a woman.
After following the news and conversation all that day, I want to offer a few random thoughts.
1. It's a bold move on the part of Marvel Comics and I think it's a positive one. Those of us in comics fandom who want a more diverse range of characters would of course prefer that new, nonderivative female characters would be created and promoted, but we also realize the reality of the marketplace and how difficult that is. Personally, I would love to see Sif or Valkyrie put forward more—and to Marvel's credit they have tried—but it may be the case that the best way to diversify the line is substitute women and other minorities for established characters (as they did so well with Miles Morales) and hope that over time they establish themselves as beloved and independent iterations. (From what I've seen, few consider Miles to be a replacement but a fascinating character in his own right.)
Furthermore, there is a tradition of the current Thor losing his "worthiness" and the mantle being passed to another character, such as Beta Ray Bill (a horse-faced character for people like me to identify with), and we all know that Thor himself became a frog for a spell (after which an independent Frog-Thor was created, because you demanded it!). A female Thor was a natural next step in the evolution of the Thor mythos (just like I believe Sam Wilson-as-Cap is), and it allows the current Thor to go through a redemption storyline. I have no doubt the current Thor will come back, but as long as good stories are told in the meantime, I'm all for it. (And this is Jason Aaron, one of my favorite writers in the medium right now, so I have no doubt the stories will be fantastic.)
2. I think another reason this change is being met with skepticism—aside from issues with the character's gender—is that Marvel does not have an established traditon of legacy in the same way that DC does (or did before the New 52). There have been a number of Flashes, Green Lanterns (even just counting the Sector 2814 ones), Robins, and even Batmen. In particular, Wally West and Kyle Rayner served as "the" Flash and Green Lantern, respectively, for over a decade after their predecessors "went away," and a large contingent of fans embraced them, largely because their characters were more fleshed out than Barry Allen and Hal Jordan were at the time. While they were beloved, Barry and Hal's original adventures were mostly about using their powers to fight bad guys, not explore their deepest character traits, which made them relatively easy to replace with new people that, given the times in which they were introduced, were explored in more depth.
But when the Marvel heroes were created (or defrosted) in the 1960s, they were instilled from the get-go with well-defined character traits that served to make their superhero identites indistinguishable from their "real" identities. So even though there have been others to use the names, many fans don't see them as the authentic versions. With all due respect to Bucky and Rhodey, Steve Rogers is Captain America and Tony Stark is Iron Man because Steve and Tony's personalities are as much a part of the identities of Cap and Shellhead as are the shield and the armor. (Even in DC, the trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have become inseparably tied to Clark/Kal, Bruce, and Diana, but few others have.) And Thor takes this even further because Thor is his given name—there is no difference between the hero Thor and the "civilian" Thor (now that Don Blake has been rendered irrelevant). (Apparently the current Thor will go by a different name after he is "deposed," but even that highlights how odd this transfer of title is.)
This doesn't mean that "mantles" can't be passed on in the Marvel Universe, but merely that replacing Thor or Cap has more impact—and receives more resistance aside from issues of gender and race—than it would in DC, where multiple generations of heroes was once a grand tradition.
3. Who will be the new Thor—and who should it be? The safe bet is that it will be Angela, newly revealed to be Thor and Loki's sister. Less likely, it could be Valkyrie, another natural choice for her longlasting popularity and close ties to Asgardian lore, or Jane Foster, who recently moved to Asgard as an emissary from Midgard (Earth) and is suffering from cancer (which could be cured with the Odinforce, even though she doesn't want this). My ideal choice would be Sif, who seems to be the natural successor to the current Thor just as Sam Wilson is the natural successor to Steve Rogers (after Bucky had his shot). (As for hair color, I have it on good authority that people can change their hair color, especially if they undergo a transformation to become the Norse God of Thunder.)
4. Finally and most speculatively, I can't help but think that so many major changes at once—new Thor, new Cap, newly dead Wolverine, possible cancellation of the Fantastic Four—are increasing the odds that there is some sort of reboot coming at Marvel after this "Time Runs Out" business coming in the Avengers titles. I may be wrong, and I really hope I am, but it seems that the powers-that-be at Marvel are playing with their favorite toys one last time, taking bold chances with them, before they get all new ones. They've done radical things before—killing Cap, replacing Peter Parker, taking Dazzler seriously—but now they're doing a lot of it all at once, and frankly it worries me. Again, I hope I'm wrong, because I love the Marvel Universe and its rich history that, for the most part, the creators there respect.
I'm posting this fon behalf of my Kristen Geaman, who's putting together a fantastic book on the hero who has been called the heart of the DC Universe (at least pre-New 52), Dick Grayson.
CFP: 75 Years of Dick Grayson (Robin, Nightwing, Batman)
Book Project
To date, there has not been a single scholarly book published on Dick Grayson, the original Robin who grew up to become the hero Nightwing and serve as Batman. In conjunction of Grayson's 75th anniversary in 2015, this book seeks to examine any and all aspects of Grayson as an influential comic book character and cultural icon.
We welcome contributions from all scholarly fields, including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, art, art history, cultural studies, media studies, and more.
Given that this project is the first of its kind, the range of topics is extremely broad. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Dick's influence on the development of comic book conventions (especially as the original kid sidekick)
-Dick in comic-book art
-Dick's role as leader
-Dick's relationships with other heroes (Bats, Titans, JLA, etc)
*** We are especially looking for an article about Dick and his relationship with Barbara Gordon
-Dick in the New 52
-Dick and his fans (who they are, why he might have more female fans than Batman, etc)
-Dick and representation (especially the ret-con that gave him Romani heritage)
-Dick in fanart, fanfiction, and/or cosplay
-Dick in non-print media
-Dick and his villains
-looking at Dick through any number of theoretical lens: gender theory, queer theory, etc.
-Dick and philosophy, psychology, etc
Please contact Kristen Geaman (firstname.lastname@example.com) for more information. Currently, we hope to have first drafts written by the end of August 2014. That will give us time to circulate them among the participants before we write final drafts.
Imagine you're a leader in your community, fighting on behalf of a principle for which you are personally willing to sacrifice anything. Your own well-being is of no concern to you as long as your actions are protecting and promoting the ideal in which you believe so strongly. One day, however, you notice that your actions are hurting those around you, both those who are similarly invested in your cause as well as others who are not involved—including, perhaps, many whom you're trying to help. You may even be winning the fight, until you notice that its costs, especially those borne by others, are simply getting too high to bear. Do you fight on, regardless of the cost, or do you stop, cutting the losses but losing the larger fight?
This sounds like the type of hypothetical situation that philosophy professors give to their students to work through. But it's not hypothetical to people around the world who fight for social justice, gladly sacrificing their own livelihoods for their cause, while perhaps also inflicting collateral damage on others. It's also a situation that the superhero Captain America faced in the Marvel Comics storyline "Civil War" in which he defended the freedoms of his fellow heroes against a law that would compel them to reveal their secret identities to the government and register as agents of the state.
When we think of complex and nuanced moral decision-making, comic book superheroes probably don't immediately spring to mind. If they did, most people would choose the psychologically complex Batman rather than the flag-waving Captain America. "Cap" is often criticized, by fans in the real world as well as his fellow heroes in the Marvel Universe, as embodying old-fashioned, "black-and-white" ethical thinking that is anachronistic in our modern, morally ambiguous world. What Cap actually shows, however, is how values are of no use in realistic moral dilemmas without the essential faculty of judgment.
Each of the three major schools of moral philosophy needs the help of judgment to result in specific actions. Unique among them, virtue ethics highlights the importance of nuanced and contextual decision-making, such as in Aristotle's emphasis on practical judgment (phronesis). Virtue ethicists recommend the cultivation of character traits such as honesty that promote moral action but stop short of formulating rules to guide it, leaving it to judgment to determine how to balance virtues in any given ethical dilemma.
Judgment is essential to the other two schools of ethics as well, although this is often minimized in favor of their rule-focused aspects. Utilitarianism seems straightforward once you get to the final step, adding up the effect of individual utilities and comparing this sum to alternatives. But the process of determining those utilities, as well as deciding whose utilities to include and which contingencies you want to account for, require judgment—and the result can have an enormous impact on whether the utilitarian calculation results in a "yea" or "nay."
Deontology, which emphasizes duties and principles, seems more clear-cut, avoiding the messy empirical details of moral dilemmas. But it has no obvious way to deal with conflicts between two duties or principles, nor to decide when the costs of standing by principle become too great. Even Immanuel Kant, a strict deontologist, stressed the necessity of judgment, which he considered "a peculiar talent which can be practiced only, and cannot be taught" (Critique of Pure Reason, A133/B172). As Onora O'Neill wrote about Kant, "Discussions of judgment . . . are ubiquitous in Kant's writings. He never assumes agents can move from principles of duty, or from other principles of action, to selecting a highly specific act in particular circumstances without any process of judgment. He is as firm as any devotee of Aristotelian phronesis in maintaining that principles of action are not algorithms and do not entail their own applications" ("Kant: Rationality as Practical Reason," in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, edited by Alfred R. Mele and Piers Rawling, p. 104).
While Captain America's moral character is based on virtues and duties—giving the impression of simplistic, "right and wrong" thinking—he shows the importance of moral judgment in balancing these moral factors before making a decision. Take the example from the Marvel "Civil War" that led off this essay: at the end of the story (Civil War #7, January 2007), Captain America and his allies were winning the climactic battle against Iron Man and other heroes defending superhero registration. As Captain America was about to deliver the final blow against his fellow Avenger, a group of ordinary people pulled Cap away and showed him how the battle had destroyed much of Manhattan. After realizing how much the battle was costing the residents of New York, he signaled to his allies to stop fighting and surrendered. Cap didn't abandon his principle of freedom; he simply decided it was no longer worth the cost it was imposing on others. His values didn't change—but his judgment did.
Simple rules such as "stand by your principles" or "minimize harm" are no good in situations like this. Captain America had to keep both of these rules in mind and balance them using his judgment. As Kant emphasized, there is no way to explain judgment as a rule or algorithm; rather it is what a person turns to when rules or algorithms fail to solve a moral problem. In this way judgment resembles Ronald Dworkin's theory of judicial decision-making, in which a judge balances the various principles relevant to a "hard case" according to the principles and ideals he or she believes best explain the broader legal system. Similarly, in a moral dilemma a person must balance his or her various principles and beliefs to arrive at a decision that maintains the integrity of his or her moral character.
Captain America's core principles and virtues may be "black and white," but the way that he balances them is complex, nuanced, and sensitive to context. In the dramatic, life-threatening situations he faces in his comic books and movies, Cap demonstrates how the basic ideas of ethics serve merely as guidelines that by themselves cannot determine the best or right action on their own. As the narration to Captain America, vol. 1, #184 (April 1975) read, "he thinks in principle... tempered on the forge of understanding, and honed to the edge of reality." Moral philosophy can help identify the critical elements of a problem, but each person's judgment is crucial to finding what Dworkin called (in the context of jurisprudence) the "right answer," the one that is consistent with his or her moral character. By doing so, we can craft our own character much like Cap's writers craft his—with or without the red, white, and blue costume.
For more on Cap and philosophy, pick up The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero, available now.
If Al Ewing and Lee Garbett's Loki: Agent of Asgard #1 doesn't end up being the best single issue of the year, then we've got a great year ahead of us. Why did I love this book so much? How much time do you have?
(Look Ma, I'm writin' a listicle! *sobs*)
1. It's a fantastically constructed done-in-one that tightly packs in everything you could want in a comic book. (This could be a listicle of its own—nested listicles, much structure, wow...)
Let's start with one great attention-getting splash page for an opener and another shocking one to close, with an entire adventure in between—an adventure that stands perfectly well on its own while setting up a larger story to come.
Did I mention that it also recaps Loki's essential history with the Avengers—and features the Avengers too? Yes, all in one comic, I kid you not. If they're not careful, they might attract the mythical New Reader with this book—and actually keep him and her. Wait... do you think that was their plan all along? That's just devious enough to be worthy of Loki himself.
2. Just when you thought Kieron Gillen was the master of Loki-speak, Al Ewing threatens to take that horned crown from him. Under Ewing's pen Loki is just as snappy and clever as we've come to know him, and when interacting with the Avengers you can't help but hear his lines in Tom Hiddleston's voice. (Hey Google, I said Tom Hiddleston! TOM HIDDLESTON! That's three times! Now where's my check?)
3. Lee Garbett brings his clear lines and layouts to a book with a distinctly darker feel than the Stephanie Brown Batgirl series on which he shone so brightly—do I ever miss that book—and makes it his own while at the same time very different from adventures of the wide-eyed Steph and battle-wisened Babs. His characterization is magnificent, not just on Loki but on the other characters as well, especially Thor and... no, I can't give it away. Together wih colorist Nolan Woodard, Garbett makes his book a joy to look at as well as to read. (Hats off to Jamie McKelvie for the new Loki design.)
4. What's that? Did I say "joy"? In a modern comic book?
Verily! This book was fun to read, and will surely be fun on numerous re-readings. I laughed outloud through the book, not just at Loki's dialogue and inner monologue but also at his devious machinations—all the twists you expect from Gillen's writing of him against the background of a simpler and more new-reader-friendly premise.
5. And this passage, from Loki's mind:
Magic is taking a thought and making it real. Taking a lie and making it the truth. Telling a story to the universe so utterly, cosmically perfect that for a single, shining moment... the world believes a man can fly.
Best explanation of magic in comics I've ever seen (when one is given at all)—and also keeping a nice link to Gillen's emphasis on stories through Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers. There's also a distinct Douglas Adams quality to it: I immediately thought of his line from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about flying being jumping and forgetting to fall. And the subtle Superman reference is just one of the pop culture references strewn through the book—see if you tell what he's singing in the shower—another legacy continued from Gillen's development of the character.
Loki: Agent of Asgard #1 is a success on many levels. Ewing and Garbett have successfully taken over Loki from GIllen's capable hands and put him in a new context that will be familiar to longtime fans and new wanderers from the land of cinema alike. And did I mention it's fun? In the end, that may be the best thing about the new Loki title—I expect lots of pathos, betrayal, and misunderstandings throughout this run, but I hope it never stops being fun.
I was surprised to see The Virtues of Captain America up on Google Books several weeks before it's released, but on the bright side, the preview does contain the introduction, which I encourage anybody interested in this book to read. (And don't forget the first chapter is available at Wiley Blackwell's site for the book.)
I hope to post some things in the near future related to the book, including scenes and lines from the comics I had to leave out, images related to ones I did put in the book, and comics I didn't read before the book was finished (either because they came out too recently or just because I missed them).
It's almost here! Just a few weeks until The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero is released, and the fine folks at Wiley Blackwell have posted PDF files of the table of contents, the index, and the first chapter, which provides some basic ethical background for the rest of the book (with particular emphasis on Marvel's Civil War).


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Public employees are asking the Oregon Legislature to block the release of individual employees and retirees names by the state pension system.
The House Business and Labor committee will introduce a draft bill Thursday that would add individual employee and retiree names to a list of information exempt from public disclosure by the state retirement system, including their addresses, telephone numbers and social security numbers.
It's not clear if there is much support among legislators, many of whom are members of PERS, to move the bill forward. It is being introduced as a courtesy to a coalition of public sector labor unions who want to reverse the effect of a legal settlement that PERS reached with The Oregonian and The Salem Statesman Journal last fall.The Oregonian has long sought individually identifiable pension information as part of its ongoing reporting on the retirement system's costs and financial difficulties. PERS routinely provided the information until 2002, when it started denying requests and asserting that the information was exempt from release under the state's Public Records Law except in the case of such prominent retirees as an ex-governor. That position was upheld by then-Attorney General Hardy Myers.
Last year, Attorney General John Kroger reversed the state's stance, ordering the release of the information to the newspapers. PERS sought a judicial review of that order, but ultimately agreed to release the information to the papers.
PERS released the names and monthly benefits of 110,000 retirees in November. A second batch of information will be released in March, including retirees' years of service, retirement date, final average salary and the method used to calculate benefits.
While the newspapers argue the individually identifiable information provides necessary transparency, many retirees view it as an invasion of privacy and say it will subject them to unwanted financial solicitations and identity theft.
The PERS Coalition challenged the legal settlement in court, but Marion County Circuit Court Judge Vance Day said the court lacked jurisdiction in the case.
The draft bill would not only exempt retirees names from disclosure, but grant the effected employees legal standing to intervene in a court case if PERS decided to release such information in the future.
"This doesn't interfere with any of the other information being released, but we don't think that the name itself is necessary," said Greg Hartman, a Portland Attorney representing the coalition.


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La mejor vista en el centro de San José , vistas a las montañas, edificio más alto del país " torres paseo Colón"
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Goof: In this episode, McCoy says he's been a prosecutor for twenty-two years, but in the season five episode "Second Opinion", he says he's been a prosecutor for twenty-four years meaning, at this point, he would have been a prosecutor for a total of twenty-six years.
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Jack McCoy: These circumstances are extraordinary. Enforcing that prohibition would be against the interest of justice.
Defense Attorney: I am not aware the legislators passed an amendment saying that the law doesn't apply if Jack McCoy doesn't like it.
Adam Schiff: He confessed to a murder to avoid being prosecuted for a murder? I'm putting this one in my memoirs.
Lennie Briscoe: (searching a suspect's home) We're still waiting for a warrant, so don't open any drawers not large enough to store a hostage.
Dennis Harp: That's a misdemeanor.
Lennie Briscoe: So you're a lawyer now? Rey, why don't you take him outside and show him how much we like lawyers tonight?
Lennie Briscoe: Somebody put iron in your Cheerios this morning?
Jack McCoy: Are you talking to me again?
Rey Curtis: 5:15.
Lennie Briscoe: Good morning, America.
Curtis Rey: C'mon, he wants us to put our asses on the line just to pull his out of the fire.
Jack McCoy: No one is asking you to commit perjury.
Lennie Briscoe: Just tell me where to show up.
Jack McCoy: Here's your deal. He does hard time in Rikers until Hell freezes over.
Jack McCoy: At least you got to dodge the question by calling me an idiot.
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Coming from a current SL user(me) , I have had no issues with my white paint job hence kinda surprised when i was told to be careful of the matte colour.
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What Is Dementia?
Dementia is a condition that affects the brain. A person with dementia displays diminished mental capabilities. These can include problems with memory, speaking and understanding speech (aphasia), planning, and performing other complex behaviors. These usually get worse over time. The term "dementia" is used to describe these problems, but they can result from a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's disease.
Dementia usually affects the elderly. According to the 2007 Aging, Demographics and Memory Study, about 14 percent of U.S. adults over age 71 had dementia in 2002 (Plassman, et al., 2007.)
If you are caring for someone with dementia, there are some important ways to ensure that the he or she remains comfortable and safe.
Early Stage At-Home Care for Dementia
Questions to Discuss With Your Family
Who will make healthcare and financial decisions when the person is unable to do so?
- Put wishes on paper early and seek legal advice.
- Set up a conservatorship if necessary. This means designating someone who is legally responsible for protecting the interests of the person with dementia.
How will you meet the person's care needs?
- Who is able to provide assistance?
Where will the person live?
- Is he or she safe in the house?
- Should he or she move closer to family or in with family members?
Goals of Early Stage At-Home Care
Talk with your healthcare provider about how you can:
- keep the person calm and oriented
- ensure that dressing and grooming are easy
- help with memory loss
- manage behavior and sleep problems
It is important to reduce the family member's confusion by:
- setting up a day-to-day routine with simple activities
- keeping familiar objects and people around
- keeping lights on at night
- using reminders, notes, calendars, or a list of activities
- using cues to communicate certain times of the day. This can include opening the windows to indicate morning and playing soft music to indicate nighttime.
- involving the person in daily activities as much as possible
Helpful Tips
Take walks with your loved one. This can help prevent wandering and ease restlessness or anxiety. Consider purchasing an identification and medical information bracelet for your loved one to wear in case he or she does wander away.
Play music at certain periods throughout the day. This can help the person stay on a schedule and improve his or her sleep habits.
Encourage therapeutic activities such as community classes for seniors, hobbies, or other activities that the person enjoys and is capable of doing.
Schedule and supervise meals to make sure the person does not become dehydrated or hungry. He or she may need extra calories as a result of physical restlessness.
Help your loved one maintain some independence. Daily care needs such as bathing and dressing may become more difficult as the dementia progresses. This may force your family member to become more dependent on the caregiver. It can be difficult to manage the emotions that come with losing privacy for someone dealing with dementia. It is important to continue to encourage independence as much as you can in all aspects of the person's life.
Long-Term Care Options
Eventually, a person with dementia will need 24-hour monitoring and care for his or her safety. In order to accommodate this care, you may consider:
In-Home Care
You can hire profession caregivers to help you care for the family member affected by dementia at home. In-home care service providers may include nurses to help with the medical aspects of care or aides who can help with cleaning or running errands.
Adult Day Care
Adult day care facilities operate during the workday and provide attendees with opportunities to participate in activities and socialize with others. Day care allows you to work or provides short-term breaks so you can attend to other things.
Assisted-Living Facility
These facilities provide some independent living options with staff available 24 hours a day. It is important to check that the facility you choose has experience working with someone with dementia.
Nursing Home
Nursing homes provide a higher level of care to help the person with daily activities and to manage their dementia symptoms. At these facilities, physicians and nurses are on-site to monitor the resident's care.
Dealing With Caregiver Stress
If you've been caring for someone with dementia for a long time, you may feel yourself getting stressed out, frustrated, and even angry. This does not mean you are a bad person. What it does mean is that you should take breaks from care giving to maintain your own independence, health, and overall well-being. Remember that you can only take care of someone else if you are taking care of yourself.
The long-term progression of dementia can cause the patient to experience extreme behavior changes, including violence or aggression. It is important to understand that these changes are part of the disease and to reach out for support through your medical care team, other caregiver groups, family, and friends.
There are many community resources, including overnight nurses and support groups, to help you avoid caregiver stress. Respite care is offered in some facilities as a temporary option that can allow you time to rest.
The Alzheimer's Association provides information, an online message board, and links to support groups in your area. They also sponsor events and public outreach campaigns to educate the community about Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
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TDD Phone: 312-335-5886
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Phone: 800-445-8106
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We are going to WDW for the first time ever in October, so we have no idea what it will be like once we are at the parks (even though we are doing tons of research). We are bringing my grandmother with us and she may need to use an ECV at times because her COPD and asthma wear her out. She is a big worrier, and I am concerned about her being able to load on a bus, monorail, etc. I don't want her panicking or anything like that. Can anyone give me tips to kind of help her out and make her more comfortable with the ECV? Thanks in advance!
Meet the delivery person dropping off the ecv. Have them show her how to use it, back up, speed controls, parking etc.
Thanks! I definitely think that will give her more confidence! She's needed them in the past on other vacations, but would never get one because she was afraid she would run someone over.
Have her go to a local big box store (Target, Wal Mart or grocery) to practice before you leave. It will help her learn how to use it before you leave.
The more times she can use one, the more comfortable she wil be, so if she can go with family to those stores, grocery stores, etc. and practice repeatedly, it will really help. Having people jump in front of her once she gets used to driving will help her get used to stopping quickly, which is the skill she'll use most at WDW.
I think you should be prepared to help her with the scooter when necessary. Loading a scooter on and off the bus or whatever is not easy and it may be better if someone else in your party did it for her. Practicing at the local store won't prepare anyone for this situation. You will probably have to give her a boost on and off the bus, as well. There are some rides that are awkward with the scooter like Soarin' in Epcot. You actually have to do the scooter on an elevator to get to the level of the ride. Another hard time with the scooter is getting it in and out of the resort room. Again, it may be better for someone else to do this for her. If you can go to a local zoo for a day with grandma included then you can rent a scooter there and get in a good practice day before going to Disney. You can see for yourself that this will be doable or not at Disney for her. The local zoo will still be easier than doing Disney. The park challenge with a scooter is how invisible the scooter is to everyone else. They will step out in front of the scooter with no consideration to the scooter driver. You can safe guard somewhat against this by surrounding your grandmother on all sides. If you have enough in your party it would be great to have someone in front of the scooter leading the group and people on her sides and one in back. You become her eyes and you can give verbal commands to stop or whatever if necessary. We used all these techniques when we took my MIL and she was 87 at the time. One funny story I will share, here. My MIL seemed to want to rub her nose a lot. Well, every time she did it she would let go of the scooter handle and the scooter would stop. She never did catch on to this problem; so, we would pay attention and tell her to keep her hand on the throttle at all times when moving. You need to shut the scooter off every time you are at a show, parade, or fireworks. You want to conserve the battery power especially if you plan on longer days in the park. Keep the battery charger with the scooter; there's a pouch for it. If you run out of charge there are places in the park where you can charge it if necessary. This will take a while if it becomes necessary. The scooter has a charge indicator. Make sure you are checking it every hour or so; so, you know it still has enough power left. There is a manual lever usually in the back and towards the bottom of the scooter where you can put it in manual mode which is easier to push if necessary. Each night you need to charge the battery all night; so, the scooter has power to run the next day. Don't take this for granted and don't depend on your grandma to remember or know how to do this. If this all becomes overwhelming to her you may have to consider going to a manual wheelchair and pushing her.
A couple of other suggestions - The speed control is the most important thing to know about. It will be a lever or knob and will be marked to show the maximum speed for that setting. Most of the time it will be a rabbit for faster and turtle for slower. The biggest problem my family has seen in the parks is people traveling at too high a speed, so be sure you know where turtle is and use it when she needs more control. Another important control to know about is freewheel. This allows you to put the ECV into a setting where it can be pushed and will not be powered. That is helpful if you get into a situation that she can't out of. It's also helpful to know how to put it back in because CM's often put it into freewheel to move it while you were in an attraction. If you find it doesn't work when you come out it may be that they didn't correctly get it back into gear. Before leaving your resort, make sure she is very confident in backing, going forward, stopping and turning both going forward and backward. The more comfortable she is doing those things the easier it will be for her. Even though she is the driver, she does not have to be the one to put the ECV I am the bus. Someone else in your party can drive it on if they feel more comfortable, or you can put it into three wheel and push it on. Just be sure it's back in gear before being tied down on the bus. Anytime she is stopped for more than a short time, it should be turned off. That will not only save the battery, but will also help prevent accidental movement. The last hint I have is that not all parks are as easy to maneuver in as others. Most people find Magic Kingdom is the hardest because it is small spaces, lots of people and lots of children. So that might not be the best park to start in. Epcot seems to be the easiest part for most people because there are less small children and the walkways are much wider.
Thank you! I can definitely help her load and unload, I was just afraid the bus drivers may not let me for some reason. She's a pretty spunky 73 year old, and she wants to try the parks without it on the first day, but I just want her to be comfortable, I don't want her to wear herself out at the beginning of the trip. I can definitely see my grandma doing what your MIL did! We are going to visit her this week, we will definitely take her to the stores to practice!
For the whole first trip I rented an ECV offsite, I made my husband drive it on the bus because everybody was staring and in a hurry (ECVs load 1st) and just made me crazy nervous. Husband couldn't care less what others think, and he took it on like a pro. Now I've got lots of experience, and I drive on myself. Sent from my iPad using DISBoards
One thing to know if she practices at home in grocery stores/other stores with scooters is that usually they have the slowest and least maneuverable scooters possible. The good news is, if she gets comfortable maneuvering one of those, an offsite rental scooter will be much easier. The bad news is that trying one that slow and difficult might be discouraging. I'd just keep encouraging her and point out that a rental at WDW will be easier to use. If there's a zoo or theme park near home that rents scooters, they're more likely to have ones similar to the WDW park rentals (but still probably harder to maneuver than most of the offsite rentals).
Thank you! We are staying at the Contemporary, so I'm hoping the only time we will need to load it on a bus is the day we are going to AK and HS. Can she just drive straight on to the monorail? I will definitely be sure we slow it down in busy areas, (G-ma has a lead foot and tends to like to go fast ) so that she will not run anyone over.
Good to know! I have no problem loading for her, I don't care if people stare and get impatient with me, but I do know it would make her nervous. We always give her pep talks because she tends to discourage herself, but we can normally boost her confidence
Thanks! We rented a three wheel ECV because it looked much easier to handle. I will be sure to let her know those are much more difficult than the one she will have!
For the monorail you need to be in the handicap line/area to board. The Disney cast member will get a ramp; so, the scooter can be driven on. There will be others using the handicap cars, too. I would try not to load the scooter on; unless, you are the first one in the monorail. Also, keep in mind you might miss the first monorail; because, all the sections of the monorail are not scooter friendly. Don't let your party get split up; stay together. Another thought is that the scooter has to be driven like a wheelchair; you need to go where there are ramps. MK seems to have a lot of curbs where it would be dangerous for the scooter to go over it and you could damage the scooter, too. The navigator has to remember to go where it is safe for the scooter. If your grandma goes the first day walking and she starts getting tired remember you can rent in the park for a day either a scooter or wheelchair. The average walking done by a Disney guest is 6 miles a day. Some folks go as much as 12 miles in a day. Fortunately, it's not constant walking at the parks. Try to mix up the schedule by taking in a ride, then a show, then another ride and then a snack or meal and so forth. You want rest periods; so, she can catch her breadth.
I have used a scooter at WDW for 5 years and visit twice a year. Over the years I have learned the following. 1. Check the roll out speed on the scooter someplace at the resort where there is little traffic. Some scooters stop quickly. Other will roll up to 2 feet after you release the accelerator. Stay in slow speed all of the first day. 2, Start your visit at EPCOT. It has the widest and least traveled walkways. 3. Use the scooter as transportation. Park it with the strollers and walk to several attractions if possible. You will get stiff if you stay on it all day. I use a cane when walking for balance. 4. Stay on the sidewalk at MK Main street. If you fall in the streetcar tracks, you are stuck and it takes several people to lift an ECV out of the tracks. 5. You will hit someone when they step in front of you. Just say sorry and move on. Large mass moving tour groups are the biggest danger. Pull over to right and stop is you see one coming. 6. Get a set of lighted mouse ears and something that blinks for the rear of the scooter. Night time is wonderful at the parks but others are weary and will not see you otherwise. 7. Have as much fun as you can. The first day will be tough but it gets easier as your experience grows on the scooter.
This is a picture of the CM setting the ramp in place on the monorail. You want to be very careful, going on slow speed and ready to stop right away when getting on any transportation, but especially on the monorail. You go into the door on one side and out on the other. When you get on, the door on the opposite side will still be open. I remember reading once about someone going too fast onto the monorail and coming out the door on the other side!
Please know that the ECV rentals in the parks are gone very early in the morning. Getting one later in the day can be very difficult (not possible) unless someone leaves early and turns theirs in. The Hunchback had excellent suggestions and information! And SueM, I sure wish I'd seen those pics before I had to do the monorail the first time. I had no idea what would happen! Now it's my favorite form of transportation because it's so hassle free. I wish monorails went all over the world (no, I mean the whole REAL world, not just WDW)!
I have nearly gone out the door of the monorail when loading. Slow down when you enter. I have been asked to back out of a monorail rather than going forward. That can be tough. Ask the CM who loads you if you will need to back out. If so, stay as much in the middle of the car as you can but move up to the open door to park. Be sure to stop before going out the door. Turn the scooter off and take the key out. They generally have two scooters to a handicapped car. You may have strollers in there with you. Back out slowly as there will be people walking in your landing zone. That is another spot I have bumped someone. Who are you renting from? Some scooters are easier to put a back light on than others. I also make my husband wear something lighted at night. He walks way a head of me and I follow his blinks as traffic allows. I don't let him get to close. If you bump family, you will never hear the end of it.
Thank you for the tips! We will definitely be doing all of the above. The blinking ears is a great idea, I would have never thought of that!


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Trooper_Bri 5pts There's car fires in my state on a regular basis. 90% of them on the highway probably.Tesla stock is already inflated due to hype. Not surprised there's some knee-jerk reactions to this.
Franklin Johnson 5pts How many Lamborghini's and Ferrari's catch fire every month? I had a Subaru wagon burn to the frame in 20 minutes. This type of thing happens with all Automobiles and machinery. I had a power washer catch fire. I put it out with a chemical extinguisher. I had to re-wire the dam thing but it worked fine after. We do not know the whole story. As far as we know it never exploded.
Imnahole 5pts One electric car on fire and everyone freaks? I have seen scores of regular autos on fire, German, Japanese, and American engulfed in flames, originating in the engine compartment. Losing faith in humanity, one stupid story at a time.
titanium.tim 5pts http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-fireSo it was a drive battery fire and only burnt the first set of batteries (17 sets total). After they found the chunk of metal Tesla figures it took 25 tons of pressure to punch the 3 inch hole into the 1/4' thick armor plate while driving at highway speed. This just became one of the best destructive tests yet.This is a great car.
JJCleghorne 5pts I wonder how many other cars that burned for 2.5 hours would not end up fully engulfed.
faire 5pts Musk once boasted of the troublesome early batteries of the Boeing 787, "Unfortunately, the pack architecture supplied to Boeing is inherently unsafe. ... Large cells without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect means it is simply a matter of time before there are more incidents of this nature." He then he went on to tell Boeing that he could fix its problems -- which didn't involve a total vehicle fire, but merely a thermal runaway in a battery cell, which was contained and resulted in no catastrophic damage.Boeing appears to have fixed its battery problems and beefed up the battery containment box to eliminate an event such as . How fragile must your automobile be if running over road debris could puncture a battery case? Musk, perhaps you should call Boeing for some help.
redbloodedxy 5pts Ohhhh! This is fuc#ing hilarious !!!How apropos, for the poster car for all the flamers in California to be ablaze !!!
frcastellanos 5pts the fire got worse because firemen poured water and not a proper chemical. that doesn't have anything to do with tesla. still the car didn't burn down completely.also, the causes are still unknown so no conclusions should be made by the general public.I wish the best for tesla!
boogtc25 5pts Regardless of what was burning and what caused it, if it was on fire for 2.5 hours (link below says firemen were on the scene for that long) and fire did not penetrate the cabin, that is impressive. They're working with the state of technology at the moment and if it doesn't endanger the people in the car, then they did their job. If debris damaged the battery, I guess they just need to put some plating in that area in the future.
OfMyOwnAccord 5pts Oh great. Now the NHSTA is going to demand a recall of all Teslas because of a potential fire issue, just like they did with the Jeep Grand Cherokee. =/ One isolated incident doesn't mean the entire product is bad.
TheClassicCarFactory 5pts I think this photo puts to rest the notion that " There is no such thing as bad publicity ".....it will be very interesting to see what the investigation uncovers about the " metal object " that supposedly caused this fire....For Tesla's sake, it better have been the size of a breadbox and not a dime.
DavidNJ 5pts The car shows no crash damage...running over road debris should not cause a car to erupt in fire. It is unclear what is burning. Presumably the battery, but the fire seems to be in a different location. With less than 20k cars sold, one car erupting into a blaze is a big deal. Tesla is unique in using a large number of commercial off the shelf batteries in a custom housing with custom controls. It would appear that somehow was damaged.Note, the 5 star rating Tesla keeps advertising refers only to a few NHTSA tests. Not to the more comprehensive IIHS tests. Not to included safety equipment (less than a Mazda 3), nor fire resistance, etc.
mynameisj 5pts Why do people always record phone video sideways?Oh yeah, driven the Model S, it's as boring as beige wallpaper...
mopar_srt 5pts So out of all of the cars that Tesla makes, just one incident(of which we don't have any confirmation of why this happened) causes this hellstorm!? My guess is this will be a minor hiccup as Tesla aint Fisker. Teslas have impeccable quality and are a riot to drive. They'll bounce back! And those that sold their stock will regret it. What this story doesn't tell: How many orders were cancelled. Likely, none.
EA40 5pts "EV's catch on fire so easily!" Sure. So of course a regular internal-combustion vehicle, with an internal combustion engine creating explosions in front of you, and an extremely volatile fuel tank behind you has much less of a fire risk. And should a fire occur, the car will most likely be fine.Haters are funny.Kudos to Tesla for creating an EV that doesn't get fully engulfed in flames by a simple fire.
myopinionisbetter 5pts how many times a year do gas powered cars burn? It isn't unusual enough to make the news when it happens. Usually just a traffic report saying "Vehicle fire on such and such freeway has things slowed to a crawl"
Yoma 5pts So Tesla and Toyota have recalls, and so did Chrysler. On the Toyota thread, there were well over 50 comments. On this thread, there were 50+ comments as well. Going to the Chrysler recall thread, there were only 4 comments, one from a moderator. None of which were serious. Doesn't this website show a bit of bias?
titanium.tim 5pts That fire is not Lithium burning (as that typically burns at a 'little' higher temp), that is the interior of the frunk burring. I do not believe that this is a fire in the main power battery that covers the entire area between the wheels. This could be an auxiliary 12 volt battery on fire. The same type of battery that all cars have.
Zeta 5pts I would have expected the middle or rear portion of the car to be burning not the front because the front is just storage. Only possibility is the driver either hit something that causes the battery to ignite or he stored something in the front cargo area that causes the flame which ignited the battery. Well? at least it's just burning and not exploding.
Dr Kundt 5pts the battery was damaged when the car hit some sort of metal object in the road, the fire was 100% caused and fueled by the battery also, the firefighters used water at first... which made things worst... Lithium and H20 are not friends.... the firefighters tried to put it out with water multiple times... and it kept re-igniting eventually they swapped to a dry chemical extinguisher, and they had to cut holes in the battery to put the fire out the firefighters had to be on scene for 2.5 hourshttp://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20131003&id=16962744
casey 5pts okay, one question, there is no gas in the car, in fact there is nothing in that particular section of the car but the trunk and the frame rails, so what the heck caught on fire? even if the batteries cooling system some how massively malfunctioned there's no way there is that much combustible material in the front of that car.... it had to be something he was keeping in the trunk.
Alex daOriginal 5pts eyup. I'm not surprised, something in the batteries cooling system must have malfunctioned or something. i don't know.
Bcl187 5pts If I ever crash my ride....I would expect it not to blow up or catch fire! TESLA U LOST A FAN!! U suck!!
Flaps 5pts Well this obviously had to be some kind of electrical fire, which probably started from the lithium-ion battery. But it is pretty impressive that the fire did not spread to the entire battery pack because lithium-ion batteries can be explosive if they get heated up too much. The entire car would have been engulfed if that happened, not just the front.
92Vectra1.6i 5pts With all of the technology already packed into the Model S, maybe Tesla should develop a road debris detection system (to detect and avoid such debris), since this isn't the first vehicle to have a bad reaction to roadside debris (I remember some Chrysler minivan fires from road debris a few years back). They could even license the technology and sell it to other manufacturers.
redbloodedxy 5pts @JJCleghorne Congrats -- you found the silver lining! That fact may provide clues to conversations from months ago behind closed doors.
Trooper_Bri 5pts @redbloodedxy Lemme get this straight (pun). You used the word apropos and then called people flamers?
Dr Kundt 5pts @frcastellanos you do know they had to flip the car up on it's side and cut into the battery pack, and it took 2.5 hours for them to put out the fire? it's pretty safe to say it did burn down completely, there's nothing useable left on that heap
92Vectra1.6i 5pts @OfMyOwnAccord the NHTSA won't be doing anything until the idiots in Congress allow Federal Govco. to get back to work...
hairballhead 5pts @Yoma its widely accepted Chrysler are the biggest pieces of crap made so it hasn't been new news for 30 years
92Vectra1.6i 5pts @Yoma You would probably have a valid point if the Chrysler recall wasn't over instrument panel gauges and this article involving a Tesla catching fire on video and it going viral. Toyota recalls will always generate responses because of their failure to react to the sudden acceleration problems of their vehicles a couple of years back...
titanium.tim 5pts http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/10349-12-V-battery-picturesThe 12 volt battery is located in the rear left of the Frunk, this is the battery that you would use to jump a friends vehicle with and what is used to run the electronics. This appears not to be a primary battery fire but rather a fire in the 12 v system. Sad that the anti-ev bandwagon is so easy to jump on.
Dr Kundt 5pts @Alex daOriginal nothing to do with cooling systems, everything to do with the battery getting punctured by road debris
frcastellanos 5pts I assume you'll NEVER fly in a boeing 787 because they had some fire issues with their batteries.shame on boeing, huh?
MEA17 5pts @Bcl187Really? Gasoline cars are at more risk of a fire or explosion. Enjoy riding your bicycle to be "safe" from fire ... just be careful on the highways so you don't get run over.
casey 5pts @Bcl187 your mad because one car caught on fire? by that logic if you got all but one quetsion right through all of acidemic career, you are a failure of a student and don't deserve to graduate. Odd stuff happens, so long as this is one, or just a few, of these incidents its just a freak accident.
Alex daOriginal 5pts @Toycrusher you mean the one they crashed into a wall at what? 55mph then left it sit in a parking garadge of wrecked test vehicles for weeks on end without following the proper disposal procedure on the cars now damaged battery pack?yeah...
Andrew Christian 5pts @Flaps Tesla battery backs are underneath the vehicle and the "engine" is in the rear. This fire has to have started with another system.
GemRobs1 5pts @92Vectra1.6i Mercedes-Benz already invented that in the new S-class, it detects any objects on the road and avoids it at the last second using advanced radar technology. I was thinking that Mercedes-Benz should license its technology to Tesla, that would be really interesting to see.
Dr Kundt 5pts @92Vectra1.6i GREAT IDEA! how would that work, scan the road ahead at freeway speeds and then if it sees something just slam the brakes to a screeching halt and/or swerve into other lanes of traffic I don't see how that could cause any problems at all
scarygary 5pts @92Vectra1.6i Nissan Altima had the same issues.....the air intake would suck everything, including lit cigarettes buds.
DriveThru 5pts @Dr Kundt @frcastellanos It did not burn down completely, it was designed so if a fire should happen it would be controlled
titanium.tim 5pts @Andrew Christian @Flaps There is another 12 volt battery that is used to run the electronics in the vehicle.
Flaps 5pts @Toycrusher @Flapshttp://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/highway-fire-of-tesla-model-s-included-its-lithium-battery/?_r=0 "A Tesla Model S electric car caught fire on Tuesday morning in Washington State, and the company said that the fire began in the car's battery pack after the driver hit debris on a highway."
92Vectra1.6i 5pts @Dr Kundt @92Vectra1.6i Mercedes and several other manufacturers already have collision avoidance systems that automatically apply the brakes to avoid stopped vehicles so the technology in many ways already exists. I haven't heard of a huge increase in crashes of new Mercedes so I suspect it would be very similar in making driving more, not less, safe.
92Vectra1.6i 5pts @myopinionisbetter @92Vectra1.6i I spent a couple of years "looking" on the fastest highway in the world, the German Autobahn (where my cruising speed was normally 180 kph /112 mph). I can tell you from experience that there is simply no way to see, let alone avoid every piece of road debris, particularly in moderate traffic and at night. I will say on further reflection that my original statement should have been "maybe Tesla should develop a DEFEATABLE road debris detection system".
myopinionisbetter 5pts @92Vectra1.6iUnfortunately, as it is the systems that are designed to detect other cars sometimes brake for bumps in the road.There is a fabulous system for avoiding things in the road though, it is called looking
Dr Kundt 5pts @92Vectra1.6i that tech is for low speed city driving.... not the freeway.... c'mon man


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Everybody well, almost everybody has a food lover in their life. Their passions take different forms: One is a great cook, one is the consummate hostess, another a wine aficionado, another a locavore. Maybe its a person who loathes the kitchen but likes nothing better than a nice dinner out.
The glad tidings: Theres a gift out there for all of them.
We went on a shopping spree in search of gifts that would be practical and fun at the same time. The kind of item that makes one think, How clever!
Heres what we found in Santas bag.
Gingerbread Pan
Bake a quick bread in the classic shape and bring a smile to the table. Williams-Sonoma, $29.95.
Citrus Sprayer
Want to give seafood, salad or a drink a burst of citrus without squirting liquid willy-nilly? Just screw this spray top into the cut end of a lemon, lime or other fruit. Press, and out comes a fine mist of juice. Expect to get 100-plus sprays from a typical lemon. Coastal Cupboard, Mount Pleasant, $14.99.
Wine tote
Pull Santas pants over a couple of bottles of wine and tote them to an appreciative wine drinker. Stono Market, Johns Island, $15.99.
Holy Smoke Smoked Olive Oil
One of the latest examples of locally made food, created by Kyle Payne and Max Blackman on Dorchester Road. This is olive oil with a twist: the flavor of bacon but completely vegan. Extra-virgin cold pressed California olive oil is cold-smoked with hickory and pecan woods from the Carolinas in a special machine. 8.5 ounces for $15. At the Charleston Farmers Market, Caviar & Bananas, Two Boroughs Larder, Bull Street Market, Boone Hall Farms Market, Blackbird Market, Gullah Gourmet and others.
Blue crab serving pieces
Pick and serve your seafood in style with enamelware platters, plates and bowls artfully decorated with Callinectes sapidus, our beloved blue crab. Dishwasher and oven safe, chip resistant. Stono Market, Johns Island, $8.59 and up.
Wine chiller
Chilled wine soon loses its cool and becomes less refreshing with each passing minute. Heres a solution: The Vinoice, a wine pourer with a chill rod. Freeze the rod first, attach it to the pourer, and insert. It will maintain the temperature for up to an hour. Charleston Cooks! $28.
Restaurant Week
Right around the corner is the return of Restaurant Week, set for Jan. 10-20. Most restaurants offer gift certificates, so this may be your opportunity to give someone a great night on the town. Choose from more than 120 restaurants and get three courses for either $20, $30 or $40. Participating restaurants are listed at charlestonrestaurant association.com. Contact the restaurants individually to buy a gift certificate and make sure they can be used during Restaurant Week.
Spiral Slicer
The German-made Spiralschneider Spirelli has a long name but a simple function making pasta out of vegetables. Just turn your carrots or squash or cukes around inside and watch the ribbons of veggies fall out. Handy for the low-carb diet set. Coastal Cupboard, $29.99.
Kitchen towels with a Southern accent
Towels get a lot of duty in the kitchen, which means you can never have too many. However, we like those with a little personality, like the ones bearing Charleston landmarks we saw at Charleston Cooks! ($16) and another with a holiday-themed palmetto tree and the words, Merry Christmas Yall! at Coastal Cupboard ($11.99).
Gold Band Wine Charms
Personalize these elegant gold-tone wine charms any way you desire, any number of times. The center of each charm is blank. Use a dry-erase marker to write names or initials, then wipe them clean after the party. Williams-Sonoma, $29.95.
Foodie ornaments
Christmas trees at the GDC home furnishings store west of the Ashley are loaded with ornaments, a number of them related to the pleasures of eating and drinking. Among them: a mini bottle of Pinot Grigio, a basket of hot dogs and fries, a Chinese takeout box, an espresso machine, a cookie sheet and tea bags of various kinds, such as green tea and Earl Grey. Prices ranged from $6.25 to $16.
Rosle Pineapple Cutter
Coring and cutting a fresh pineapple is a messy chore. Make efficient work of it with this gadget, which simultaneously cores and slices the fruit into rings. Charleston Cooks! $32.
The Lily Pad silicone lids
Weve all wrestled with and wasted plastic wrap and foil to cover a bowl or container for storing and reheating. Now comes a silicone lid that seals air- and watertight on smooth rims, and can be used over and over and over. Coastal Cupboard; lid sizes vary but start at $7.99.
Zoku Quick Pop Maker
Popsicles can be a spontaneous craving, but the process of making them is not. You have to plan ahead for that instant gratification. Enter the Zoku Quick Pop Maker. It can turn out pops of all kinds in only 7 to 9 minutes. The small version makes up to three pops at one time, the large up to nine. The only thing you have to remember is to keep the unit in the freezer on standby. Williams-Sonoma, $24.95 (small unit)
Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
×Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
×Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
×Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
×Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
×Food Christmas gifts holiday -- in the studio on Friday November 30, 2012. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)
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Cut small hole for stick, dip stick in melted candy and insert. Place in decorating stand; chill until firm.
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Yep just entered!
Will be a few weeks after the VLM so it will either feel like a sprint or the longest 10k ever! I notice they've moved it to the Sunday for next year.
I didn't do this years event but ran in '09 and '10.
Have made a diary entry for 13th June to get my entry sorted this year!